Examples

By reason of the very sensitive issues dealt with as part of FSJA-related policies, it is more than necessary to implement as soon as possible the new Treaty provisions on transparency in the EU institutions and also to allow Parliamentary scrutiny of confidential information such as that dealt with by Europol, the EU Joint Situation Centre (SitCen) and the future Standing Committee on Internal Security (COSI) (Article 71 TFEU).

Unbeknownst to me at the time, a secret report from the EU Future Group had just been leaked, detailing how MI5 and MI6 are to start sharing intelligence across an EU-wide spying network co-ordinated by SitCen, the European Union's intelligence assessment centre in Brussels.

The EEAS, which is expected to start work in October or November, will handle classified documents, such as reports from the EU Council's "CP931" working party on terrorism or the EU states '"SitCen" intelligence-sharing bureau.

SitCen also runs a round-the-clock alert desk which uses open sources, such as BBC Monitoring or photos taken by commercial satellites, and sends emails and SMSes to selected EU diplomats two or three times a day.